Example sentences of "not [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a tedious pounding at the heart of this music , a sincerity that allows for only one angle of delivery , a passion that has created a pop atmosphere in which it 's impossible to be clever , cool or cynical , a soul whose impulse is NOT to embrace the avant-garde , like Faustus , and be cut into a thousand pieces by a sampling machine . |
| 2 | Sister stressed how important it is to speak to the troubled , to have time for listening and not to evade the issue . |
| 3 | Children can appear not to like the taste of food and be not motivated to eat . |
| 4 | But many species appear not to like the sound of a motor or a throbbing propeller . |
| 5 | Dee seemed determined not to like the car . |
| 6 | Additionally , carried away by enthusiasm that ought not to affect the judgement of experienced lawyers , they advised him , or agreed on his urging ( I do not know which ) , that he should issue writs for libel , which he did , with the disastrous effect that he actually accepted some damages from one publication before he was compelled to reveal the falsity of his assertions . |
| 7 | The wrongful act of the son in intercepting those letters , which could not have been anticipated by the creditor , was held not to affect the creditor so as to prevent it from enforcing the charge . |
| 8 | The number of deaths for which this is likely to be true is so small that it ought not to affect the analysis presented here . |
| 9 | However , an assurance was given that , in order not to affect the living standards of those on low incomes , a list of 100 key products and services would be drawn up whose prices would be kept unchanged . |
| 10 | In moderate amounts , it is not troublesome , but for dyeing work it may be desirable to keep the concentration reasonably constant so as not to affect the rate of dyeing . |
| 11 | In the age of the life-support machine , we may sometimes look back wistfully to those days , when doctors and relatives of the moribund person were not faced with the agonising decision whether or not to preserve the existence of a human vegetable . |
| 12 | The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities ' education committee opted not to continue the support it gave when the Government withdrew funding for Scotland 's only adult residential college in 1988 . |
| 13 | If these can be detected early enough , then women can decide whether or not to continue the pregnancy . |
| 14 | His twenty-three year old son who succeeded him , Edward II , chose not to continue the challenge and returned to London and marry Isabella , the daughter of King Philip IV of France . |
| 15 | Although the Jones elected not to continue the intervention , their handling of Olwyn had changed considerably . |
| 16 | As to the actual transfer itself , the Court had already held in Case 105/84 , Mikkelsen[1985] ECR 2639 that ‘ the protection which the Directive is intended to guarantee is however redundant where the person concerned decides of his own accord not to continue the employment relationship with the new employer after the transfer … ’ and so resigns or terminates the employment by agreement from the date of the transfer ( point 16 ) . |
| 17 | A letter to Dr. Watson from the Sir C.J. Liston Foulis Trust , dated 14th October 1991 states , ‘ Our clients have instructed us not to continue the lease either on short-time or long term basis and therefore the ground with the buildings there-on belongs to our clients outright and the residents of Juniper Green have no right to occupy it or use it for playing tennis or for any other purpose . ’ |
| 18 | To be permanently enmeshed in detail is not to see the wood for the trees . |
| 19 | At that moment he reappeared in the kitchen doorway and , seeming not to see the censure in her eyes , or not to care , observed with a dry smile , holding aloft his glass of water , ‘ Handy stuff for putting out fires . ’ |
| 20 | She would have had to be blind not to see the mixture of desire and destruction in the getsure . |
| 21 | She pretended not to see the look of dismay on Martin 's face and continued with her explanation . |
| 22 | The EPA exists to regulate things , not to see the market do the job for it . |
| 23 | After a full day of sightseeing , it made it a pleasant change not to see the ground . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're not to see the swan until the performance so that you will react to if spontaneously . |
| 25 | erm I think it 's important not to see the city as a sort of down-trodden , poor , hard-working , well , I 'm sure they were hard-working , but very poor people . |
| 26 | She pretended not to see the light in his eyes ; she pretended it was the wind going up her skirt that made her suddenly shiver with apprehension . |
| 27 | That is not to underplay the contribution of the other members of the quartet : all are heard here in ( mainly ) Jackson compositions and all make solidly individualistic contributions in advance of the more formal direction that Lewis would take up with the MJQ . |
| 28 | He was free not to contract the debt . |
| 29 | I told him I believed him and that it would be such a dirty trick not to post the letter that I was sure he must have posted it . |
| 30 | However in seeking to prove the existence of ‘ authority ’ for such an idea , care should be taken not to dilute the concept and hence to reduce its utility . |